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I need help, I teied flashing a rom I made but it did not work. My phone loads the unlock boot loader screen after that the screen goes dark and does nothing. I thought I did a back up but I must have forgot I need something to bring me back to stock or to repush the whole system software. I know I am only soft bricked and not hard. Any help will be great...Thanks
here is a twrp backup of a stock phone
Stock TWRP backup
unzip to sdcard its not a flashable zip have to restore it using TWRP
I tried this and I unzipped to SD went to twrp- restore and it does not show anything. What am I doing wrong. I hate being on my Et and I want my Q back
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move the folder into the twrp folder would be my first thought
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move the folder into the twrp folder would be my first thought
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Yea you'll have to put it in the TWRP\SerialNum folder.
arrrghhh, Rangerbry
first thank you both a lot one for the help, two for the thing you guys do on here...
this is what I ended up doing downloaded the stock twrp file, unzipped it left it on my computer. Went on my phone made a backup file through twrp on my phone. took sd card out of phone put in my computer found backup file on sd changed the files from the backup to the files I unzipped put in phone restored backup and rebooted...
spyderkoz said:
arrrghhh, Rangerbry
first thank you both a lot one for the help, two for the thing you guys do on here...
this is what I ended up doing downloaded the stock twrp file, unzipped it left it on my computer. Went on my phone made a backup file through twrp on my phone. took sd card out of phone put in my computer found backup file on sd changed the files from the backup to the files I unzipped put in phone restored backup and rebooted...
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Ah, yea without ever making a backup it is probably pretty confusing as to where it should go...
Glad it's workin .
spyderkoz said:
arrrghhh, Rangerbry
first thank you both a lot one for the help, two for the thing you guys do on here...
this is what I ended up doing downloaded the stock twrp file, unzipped it left it on my computer. Went on my phone made a backup file through twrp on my phone. took sd card out of phone put in my computer found backup file on sd changed the files from the backup to the files I unzipped put in phone restored backup and rebooted...
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no problem that twrp i linked for you should be completely stock except the boot animation i forgot to change that back. i made it after a factory reset so should be good to go after a first boot
Rangerbry said:
no problem that twrp i linked for you should be completely stock except the boot animation i forgot to change that back. i made it after a factory reset so should be good to go after a first boot
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I just do not have any 3G, everything else is great
spyderkoz said:
I just do not have any 3G, everything else is great
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Often times I find performing a simple battery pull, waiting 30 seconds then, putting the battery back in and then powering on the phone will restore 3g connectivity
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shimp208 said:
Often times I find performing a simple battery pull, waiting 30 seconds then, putting the battery back in and then powering on the phone will restore 3g connectivity
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Unfortunately, at least literally speaking that's impossible with this phone in particular *g*
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Often times I find performing a simple battery pull, waiting 30 seconds then, putting the battery back in and then powering on the phone will restore 3g connectivity
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Egh Shimp208, The Photon Q has a build in battery, its not that easy to pop the back off and pop the battery..
spyderkoz said:
I just do not have any 3G, everything else is great
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hmm not sure why you wouldnt have 3g
maybe go to settings > more > mobile networks> check your on the right network
I'm still stock unrooted, but I have found I will occasionally have to cycle airplane mode to get my wifi to reconnect sometimes, maybe that will work for you.
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Sorry just got my 3g back. It wasn't anything after what I did or what ranger posted. It was the lovely towers, I didn't find out til I got to work this morning that there was an outage...
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So, I flashed CM10 nightly. Now I cannot get it to mount the external sd card. Ti backup will not recognize it, nor can I pull up any of the photos or music that are stored there. Any ideas?
Does it show up in a file explorer
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Does it show up in a file explorer
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no, es says it is not mounted or present. But when I go into storage in settings, it sees the sd card with the storage it takes up...
Also, its not recognized when I plug the usb cable in to the pc.;
Did you try removing it and putting it back in.
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2vivid said:
Did you try removing it and putting it back in.
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yeah, I tried. What are my mount settings supposed to be in cwm?
I can't even restore to today's previous setting it cwm, I get the Md5 mismatch message.
Bradlees said:
no, es says it is not mounted or present. But when I go into storage in settings, it sees the sd card with the storage it takes up...
Also, its not recognized when I plug the usb cable in to the pc.;
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Mine is getting recognized on the PC as internal storage and SD card
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I'm pretty sure that anything you flash, now at least, will set those up for you. Could be a bad flash or download
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2vivid said:
I'm pretty sure that anything you flash, now at least, will set those up for you. Could be a bad flash or download
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now it won't boot....
gonna try and take the sd card out and copy some files with my reader.
guess I odin back to stock? not sure. I can't seem to even get it to boot into recovery...
Bradlees said:
now it won't boot....
gonna try and take the sd card out and copy some files with my reader.
guess I odin back to stock? not sure. I can't seem to even get it to boot into recovery...
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Wow no boot? Odin to stock and see if it recognizes the SD card if it does reflash the ROM hopefully that fixes it
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2vivid said:
Wow no boot? Odin to stock and see if it recognizes the SD card if it does reflash the ROM hopefully that fixes it
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Odin'ing back right now. This is stresses me out...
PC recognizes the sd card when its in the reader no problem. How can I avoid this md5 sum mismatch when attempting a restore? the stuff I read is out of my league
Bradlees said:
So, I flashed CM10 nightly. Now I cannot get it to mount the external sd card. Ti backup will not recognize it, nor can I pull up any of the photos or music that are stored there. Any ideas?
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Are you sure you are pulling from the right place? Look in /external sd not /sdcard/external sd.
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2vivid said:
Wow no boot? Odin to stock and see if it recognizes the SD card if it does reflash the ROM hopefully that fixes it
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Now I'm getting a little worried. Odined back to stock the way I had previously and I'm stuck in a bootloop. Shows the Samsung logo, then just goes back to android and never loads...
any advice?
Bradlees said:
Now I'm getting a little worried. Odined back to stock the way I had previously and I'm stuck in a bootloop. Shows the Samsung logo, then just goes back to android and never loads...
any advice?
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just reflash cwm though odin
Bradlees said:
Now I'm getting a little worried. Odined back to stock the way I had previously and I'm stuck in a bootloop. Shows the Samsung logo, then just goes back to android and never loads...
any advice?
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woodzx67 said:
just reflash cwm though odin
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Do what he said. If you can boot recovery you're still good
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jparnell8839 said:
Do what he said. If you can boot recovery you're still good
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just tried to flash recovery. Still no dice...
Stays in the same screens... will not boot into recovery.
what now?
Bradlees said:
Now I'm getting a little worried. Odined back to stock the way I had previously and I'm stuck in a bootloop. Shows the Samsung logo, then just goes back to android and never loads...
any advice?
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Factory reset/wipe data through factory recovery.
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Bradlees said:
just tried to flash recovery. Still no dice...
Stays in the same screens... will not boot into recovery.
what now?
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Flash cwm Odin. Make sure to pull battery first to get download mode. If Odin cwm flash fails try downloading cwm tar and pit files again.
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jparnell8839 said:
Do what he said. If you can boot recovery you're still good
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I think in my panic I accidentally left repartition checked off....
am I completely screwed here?
I've been searching for a solution, just started, but I need to leave my pc for a while.
Any help would be tremendous...
Bradlees said:
I think in my panic I accidentally left repartition checked off....
am I completely screwed here?
I've been searching for a solution, just started, but I need to leave my pc for a while.
Any help would be tremendous...
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Take a look at this thread, hopefully it helps you http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1834059
flyers00 said:
Take a look at this thread, hopefully it helps you http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1834059
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Thanks again. Just slowing down and following the directions is usually an easier way to a solution...
but back to the original problem. I still can't get the sd card to read. If I go to the gallery like I want to look at the pictures stored on it, I can see them greyed out in the background, but I get an error message. In settings, storage, it detects the card and tells its volume, but won't let me look at it.? At a loss. Gonna redownload the cm nightly and reflash and see, but I don't get it.
Bradlees said:
Thanks again. Just slowing down and following the directions is usually an easier way to a solution...
but back to the original problem. I still can't get the sd card to read. If I go to the gallery like I want to look at the pictures stored on it, I can see them greyed out in the background, but I get an error message. In settings, storage, it detects the card and tells its volume, but won't let me look at it.? At a loss. Gonna redownload the cm nightly and reflash and see, but I don't get it.
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I know you might not want to hear this, but it might be your SD card...
Those things don't last forever and errors on them can sometimes be tricky to diagnose because bad sectors can sometimes still be read even if they are bad.
My suggestion, if your PC can still read the card then you should start by backing everything up. Then, try using another SD card in the phone. If the phone can read that, then there might be something wrong with the first card. You can also try using the phone to reformat the problem card.
Try to debug in a way that determines if maybe the card is the problem. Just the other day I had a 32 gig card go bad on me. It happened when my phone fell and came out of it's case. After that the card didn't work anymore. I remembered seeing "shock proof" on sandisk's descriptions, but I always thought it was a marketting thing. Maybe it wasn't. There's also a possibility that my card simply failed before I dropped the phone, and the reboot caused the system to remount the card and finally see the problem.
Either way, it went bad and I lost my stuff. A cautionary tale.
Hey guys,
Just experienced what I think is a soft brick. I know that this has been talked about a dozen times, and I have searched. I just want a more experienced yes or no to be sure.
Basically, last night I tried flashing PAndroid on my skyrocket and I went through the format system, format data, factory reset, and wipe cache. Then when I went into flash a zip it said something to the effect of "E: Can't access SD Card". So then I tried to use my band road but that also gave me the error. I then tried to mount the SD card, but it gave me another error. So, guessing that it would just factory reset me, I rebooted.
Now, my phone will vibrate and flash the Samsung logo before going to a black screen (but the screen is on). It also had the symptom of sticky power button for a while with the few second interval buzzing, but I jammed the power button and it seemed to stop doing that and is now doing the aforementioned thing instead.
Should I go use Vincom's soft Brick guide? Also, does anyone have a link to a 7zip extractor that isn't riddled with viruses? (had a hell of a time getting rid of them the first time I rooted haha)
Again, I know this is probably a fairly obvious answer, but yall have just been so helpful in the past that it makes me want to come here before just winging it. And I'm really nervous with this being my first time haha.
Thanks a lot guys, yall are the best!
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Use vincoms guide and Odin back to stock. I just googled for 7-zip and didn't get any viruses. Don't have the original file or I'd put it up on dev host for you
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You wiped system. That's why nothing is happening. You should still be able to enter recovery. Now why your recovery was giving you that error is a different story. Go to recovery and copy the version down here.
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You wiped system. That's why nothing is happening. You should still be able to enter recovery. Now why your recovery was giving you that error is a different story. Go to recovery and copy the version down here.
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Okay, I managed to get into recovery, but I'm still getting the error about the SD card not being mounted. I was looking on Google and I found two different solutions. One was to re flash CWM with Odin, but would that mess up my phone because it already has CWM on it? The other was to reformat my SD card on the computer, but I have no honest idea how to do that haha.
EDIT: v6.0.1.4
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SlushySolid said:
Okay, I managed to get into recovery, but I'm still getting the error about the SD card not being mounted. I was looking on Google and I found two different solutions. One was to re flash CWM with Odin, but would that mess up my phone because it already has CWM on it? The other was to reformat my SD card on the computer, but I have no honest idea how to do that haha.
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Re-Flashing cwm won't mess anything up. Formatting the sd card will remove everything on it including the rom you're trying to flash.
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Fixed it! Luckily I saved a backup I made yesterday, so I'm back up and running. Thanks for all the help everybody!
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Hey everyone,
I am new to the android phone arena and would appreciate some help.
I bought the nexus 5, rooted it and was attempting to flash CyanogenMod 11. I didnt realize I need a windows computer to do and was trying to do it through the phone itself. (i know, i know...terrible, like I said, I'm new)
The phone froze and will not even restore from a factory reset. It is like it is trying to reset from the CyanogenMod ROM (which wasnt installed properly in the first place). I have tried restoring from a backup, but none exists. I tried mounting a flash drive with the stock hammerhead ROM on it, but it will not mount. I am using ClockwordMod Recovery v6.0.4.4.
Can anyone help me?
Fastboot flash the factory images
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Pirateghost said:
Fastboot flash the factory images
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can you walk me through how to do that? I honestly have no idea. sorry.
kdmylin said:
Hey everyone,
I am new to the android phone arena and would appreciate some help.
I bought the nexus 5, rooted it and was attempting to flash CyanogenMod 11. I didnt realize I need a windows computer to do and was trying to do it through the phone itself. (i know, i know...terrible, like I said, I'm new)
The phone froze and will not even restore from a factory reset. It is like it is trying to reset from the CyanogenMod ROM (which wasnt installed properly in the first place). I have tried restoring from a backup, but none exists. I tried mounting a flash drive with the stock hammerhead ROM on it, but it will not mount. I am using ClockwordMod Recovery v6.0.4.4.
Can anyone help me?
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Ok lets try decrypting this first.
It sounds like you got through the rooting process,and got yourself a custom recovery. Ok
You flashed CM11, but it started to boot loop on you.You tried to revert back to stock, but you failed to make a backup. Now you are stuck since you cant mount the phone as a disk from recovery and restore a working rom.
Is this what is going on?
If so, you still have hope. You can use adb from the boot loader and push the stock firmware back on.
Follow this thread and start over from the beginning.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2513701
Yes, Un-root, go back to stock and try this again. Next time, make a backup before Flashing like mad.
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can you walk me through how to do that? I honestly have no idea. sorry.
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Google provides the factory images and the instructions on how to do it. The onus is on you.
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Wow haven't seen pirateghost since the HTC vivid days.
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devoureddreams said:
Wow haven't seen pirateghost since the HTC vivid days.
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Been hanging out in the nexus devices
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Follow egofreak's guide. Good rule of thumb: if it boots, you can fix it.
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Hi guys.
I have some problems with my recovery, here is my story.
I was running last TWRP, and while doing an update of my favorite ROM, the installation was stuck at fomatting system... I tried to reboot several times and nothing to do it couldn't work.
So I installed (in a dirty way) CWM to try it. Formatting seemed to work and it's still working (or at least it's written that the operation is done) BUT when I want to update my ROM and when the script needs at the beginning to format system, it's stuck for several minutes. Sometimes it works only after 3 or 4 times (or maybe it's because I don't wait enough) and so then everything works out but I've got a message like "the error was system", can't remember sorry, if you need what is exactly written I'll tell you.
So why should I do ?
Thanks.
Hope you understood me, my english kinda sucks..
I think your best bet at this point would be flashing the factory images and starting fresh. I don't use twrp myself, but for what I've read here, it's best to let it finish what it's doing and not reboot.
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adrman said:
I think your best bet at this point would be flashing the factory images and starting fresh. I don't use twrp myself, but for what I've read here, it's best to let it finish what it's doing and not reboot.
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Well when it's endless I can't let him finish I guess...
I don't know why system image would change anything because it has nothing to do with recovery. Maybe you meant stock recovery and then put back CWM ?
Up please I need an answer
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Well when it's endless I can't let him finish I guess...
I don't know why system image would change anything because it has nothing to do with recovery. Maybe you meant stock recovery and then put back CWM ?
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Same thing happened to me. In fact posted a similar post earlier. I used the nexus recovery tool once to get back to stock and that worked but erased everything on my phone.
Did it one other time successfully flashed one rom and then some thing happened but this time I had a backup in twrp and was able to restore that.
The only thing now is my battery won't charge past 77%.
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You guys really need to understand what you're doing before flashing. Start with these
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47025283
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47096456
jd1639 said:
You guys really need to understand what you're doing before flashing. Start with these
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47025283
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47096456
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Yeah that is a great how to but I've already rooted and unlocked phone. I understand how to flash roms, I have at least 10 android devices in my home that I flash roms to.
I know the process, it is the same on most devices. The problem with this one is when you go to flash a new rom it says it can't mount system and gets stuck in endless install.
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nelomen said:
Same thing happened to me. In fact posted a similar post earlier. I used the nexus recovery tool once to get back to stock and that worked but erased everything on my phone.
Did it one other time successfully flashed one rom and then some thing happened but this time I had a backup in twrp and was able to restore that.
The only thing now is my battery won't charge past 77%.
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I had the same issue flashing elemental kernel. After the reboot I couldn't access my SD and my baseband weren't recognised. So I reloaded a nandroid backup but the issue was still present. I have never encountered a so strange problem. Resolved reverting to stock and reflashing elementalx.
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You guys really need to understand what you're doing before flashing. Start with these
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47096456
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You must be kidding me... Did you even read my post ?
Tomatot- said:
You must be kidding me... Did you even read my post ?
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Twrp system may not automatically mount. From twrp select mounts and system. Or reboot recovery.
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Twrp system may not automatically mount. From twrp select mounts and system. Or reboot recovery.
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I tried that when I shaving that problem but system would not Allow me to mount system. It would let me check off everything but that.
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nelomen said:
I tried that when I shaving that problem but system would not Allow me to mount system. It would let me check off everything but that.
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You can try flashing twrp with adb again? Not sure why it wont mount system.
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jwhyte said:
Twrp system may not automatically mount. From twrp select mounts and system. Or reboot recovery.
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I'll try that but it's weird because it never happenned to me before and now it's happenning to me every time.
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I'll try that but it's weird because it never happenned to me before and now it's happenning to me every time.
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I have already gone back to stock completely and started all over to verify I did everything correct. I got sane results not sure if Tomatot has tried more than once.
Not sure if it makes a difference but my N5 is the t-mobile store version.
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Mine is from Google Play. Today I flashed a ROM and before I mounted system. The installation was very long (more than usual i'd say) but it finally worked !
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Mine is from Google Play. Today I flashed a ROM and before I mounted system. The installation was very long (more than usual i'd say) but it finally worked !
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Glad to see yours is working. I was able to flash the stock 4.4.1 but it was still feeling a little wonky. Battery got stuck again this time at 35% so I used nexus tool to return to stock completely but still same issue with battery. I think I'm going to lock it and exchange it at the T mobile store.
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Here is what's happenning :
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Formatting /system (takes about 5 minutes)
Extracting /system
Symlinking
Flashing boot.img
Yeah !
Script succeeded : resultat was [/system]
Can it help you guys ?